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Christina's blog is tupupchik. Biography

I discovered Kristina Potupchik - and this is not an exaggeration. In 2006, as a journalist, I was invited to the former Stalinist dacha in Kuntsevo, where some kind of party was taking place organized by FEP - then Pavlovsky was at his zenith. And among the few VIPs, Yulia Gorodnicheva took part in it - at that time the youngest member of the Public Chamber, which had just been organized. I was wondering what this twenty-one year old student was like, especially my fellow countrywoman from Tula. It was only later that she dropped out of the lists of members of the OP and sank into obscurity, but Yulia was very active, trying to run her own LiveJournal - Gorodnicheva-real with claims to originality and provocativeness. Her diary poll - who wants to have a child with her? - even made a little noise in the blogosphere.

Following the fair-haired Gorodnicheva like a tail was a thin brunette, whom at first I did not pay attention to. She was absolutely inert and silent. The contrast with the decisive and loud Gorodnicheva was not in favor of her reserved companion. (At the time I chalked it up to provincial shyness, but now I understand that she was looking closely and listening.)

Among those who communicated with these girls was, by the way, one of the owners - Alexey Chadayev, a well-known blogger at that time, who behaved importantly and uneasy. But today his fame as a blogger is in the past; he killed his LiveJournal a year ago. It’s unlikely that anyone at Stalin’s dacha could have imagined then that this wordless shadow of Gorodnicheva would eclipse her and Chadayev’s combined fame in just a few years.

(And one more memory - there I met “Nashist” Masha Drokova - now the heroine of the Danish documentary “Putin’s Kiss”. Then she had just arrived in Moscow from Tambov to enter a university and looked at all the “celebrities” around her like Sergei Markov with the wide-open eyes of a naive excellent student girl.)

Read the full text When I asked Gorodnicheva’s mysterious companion what her name was and who she was, she answered, looking simultaneously from under her brows and to the side, in a barely audible voice. That same fall, I again saw them together at the capital’s near-political parties - guys in their fifties hovered around the cute couple with stupid compliments. Having looked into the LiveJournal of this girl with the funny surname Potupchik (I accidentally got into it through a link from Gorodnicheva’s magazine), I didn’t see anything interesting, but I decided, as they say, to “have fun” and wrote a couple of comic comments. The owner of a blog that was not visited by anyone at the time was flattered by the attention of the anonymous author and asked to continue. But I quickly got tired of the correspondence, about krispotupchik I forgot. Who she is today is unnecessary to remind; the surname, which has become a common noun (“another dude”, etc.), speaks for itself.

The bet on a more successful friend paid off, she dragged her high to the top, and most importantly, gave her the opportunity to make useful contacts. Potupchik turned out to be no mistake and made the most of the opportunity presented to her. social climbing. The young provincial careerist did not disappear in Moscow, taking off brightly and achieving much more than what she could have dreamed of when she appeared in the capital. By the way, her remarkable feature is the ability to instantly guess the usefulness/unusefulness of a person for her advancement. She made only unmistakable bets - on Gorodnicheva and Vasily Yakemenko.

The first entries in Potupchik’s LiveJournal were typical attempts to keep a diary of an unremarkable girl - some allegorical complaints about men (she later cleaned up some entries), joy at Gorodnicheva’s entry into the Public Chamber: “Like all commissars (I hope), I filled with joy and pride for Yulia. Undoubtedly, this event is of utmost importance for OURS. Thanks to Gorodnicheva’s membership in the OP, we have a real chance to enter into a dialogue with the authorities, take part in the examination of bills and, as V. Surkov said, fight “birth trauma”... A brilliant girl!!!”

“And now also a journalist” - this was the headline of Potupchik magazine at the beginning of blogging - naively boastful and self-intoxicated at the same time. At that time, her entire journalistic experience was limited to a couple of publications in some Vladimir newspaper. But it is this belief in oneself and one’s high purpose that is remarkable.

What made Potupchik a “Potupchik” was the position she took. Without the press secretary at Nashi, she would have languished in obscurity, and her blog would have been read by, at best, a dozen friends. For example, throughout 2007 she had 1-3 comments on LJ, but in January 2008 - 250 at once! - after the action of “ourists” against the Baltic countries, which took place immediately after her appointment.

Kristina Potupchik is a classic example of a personal void filled by socially significant functions. All the previous heroes of my portraits are self-sufficient people, with one or another pronounced talent. They have something to say. The dude has nothing to say on his own. She can only broadcast other people's thoughts, wishes, preferences and emotions. There is a well-known phenomenon of popular bloggers who do not write anything themselves, but only reprint other people’s photos and news. Our heroine is a variant of this kind of blogging, only she does not select the stories herself, but broadcasts the instructions from above. 99% of those who start in this genre disappear into obscurity, remaining at the starting position, and success fell to Potupchik’s lot.

The relationship between her personal merits and her role in this case is a topic for discussion. On the one hand, she accidentally ended up in Nashi, accidentally met Gorodnicheva, etc. Christina honestly and self-critically admitted: “[Yakemenko] hired me without any skills, without education or abilities.” Yes, with her ambitions, she could have made her way to Moscow in some other way, she could have become a manager, even a press secretary of some company selling perfumes. But we consider her as a blogger - and who would be interested in posts about perfumes? I repeat - she herself has absolutely nothing to say, as a person, as an author she is of no interest to anyone except her family and friends. In the words of Khrushchev about Zinoviev-Kamenev, it shines with reflected light. Only because she works as a press secretary for Yakemenka - in Nashi and Rosmolodezh, they listen to her and read her.

Example Potupchik convinces us that you can become a popular (the second question of reputation here) blogger without any special talents or gifts. In her position, intelligence in the sense of highly developed intelligence or deep erudition is not needed. In this case, personal loyalty is more important (“the task of protecting him has always been a priority for me (Yakemenko. - OS.) any accessible ways"), willingness to work hard, regardless of anything. As a blogger, she also does not need talent, but what is important is access to the exclusive, to the original source of scandalous news. Krispotupchik- the personification of a certain layer in its generation, those guys and girls who casually relied on cooperation with the authorities in their social ascent.

Famous blogger Anton Nosik ( dolboeb) wrote about Potupchik as “a small, stupid girl who was made a big boss.” This is wrong. Potupchik is not at all childish; on the contrary, she matured early. In everyday life and communication terms, she is not very stupid. Plus a passion for writing, self-discipline, responsibility and ambition far above average. Christina is a typical heroine of Maupassant and Thackeray. Yes, she was lucky, but she tried hard herself. Classic social climbers rose thanks to a successful marriage or an active social life, Potupchik used such a new weapon as a blog. If she had remained just a press secretary, few would have known about her. Well, who in Russia knows the face of the former presidential press secretary Timakova? But a press secretary with a popular and provocative blog is something new, this is Kristinin know-how.

Potupchik achieved her goal - she is in the center of loud political scandals, the “big press” writes about her, her blog is in the top, in it she picks with Sobchak, the hacking of her email is an event discussed by everyone. A million provincial (and metropolitan) girls can only envy her with black envy.

The popularity of the blog is not hampered by spelling errors - you can give the following example: “Pani Gorodnicheva’s birthday has passed, and now we are already amortizing the sofa with her,” in “this person is sagging (??? - OS) a brilliant set of qualities."

Potupchik - beautiful and sexy. But she does not abuse these advantages on the blog; a little provocative erotica is enough for her - a small selection of photos of herself in a swimsuit for the blogosphere to go into raptures.

(-tsr-)Provocation is generally the main “engine” of interest in her blog. The dude writes rudely about his opponents, hits them below the belt, does not disdain any dirt, sometimes he is witty in this, more often he is simply cheeky. But the rudeness and swagger performed by a young girl is especially attractive to some. Provocation is different, you have to be able to do it, and Potupchik has succeeded in this genre.

Christina's future as a blogger is apparently bleak. Most likely, she will quit blogging as soon as she changes jobs, at best she will write something on Facebook, and everyone will forget about her.

Contrary to her girlish dream, she did not become a journalist and never will. Journalism is not at all what Potupchik does. But this is hardly a tragedy for her. She will go to work as a press secretary in some Roscosmos, where gray-haired respectable men will hit bottles on their heads because of her, and will focus on family life- in short, it won’t be lost.

https://www.site/2016-10-26/kak_kristina_potupchik_perestala_byt_radikalnym_ohranitelem_intervyu

“I had a choice: either to Nashi or exile to my grandmother”

How Kristina Potupchik ceased to be radical guardian. Interview

Something strange happened to Kristina Potupchik. Until recently, she was a well-known blogger from the “protector camp”: liberal oppositionists hated her, she swore at them social networks, was the embodiment of the concept of the “Kremlin blogosphere”. Of course: former press secretary of the notorious Nashi. However, in recent months, even recent opponents have noticed that Potupchik has changed her position: from a radical guardian to a moderate centrist and suddenly turning communication from a squabble into a dialogue. The site's correspondent asked Potupchik about what happened to her, and heard a lot of unexpected words.

- IN lately You are increasingly being quoted by the opposition, although you have been known for many years as a representative of the guardian camp. What is this - a change of course?

- What is “protection”? I supported Putin and still do. He said not long ago that the Russian national idea is patriotism. I have always been a patriot, because I always wanted to live in strong Russia which you can be proud of. In reality, this means that I want people to stop being imprisoned for liking and reposting on social networks, because some regional judge or cop needs to cover up the statistics. So that regional officials stop using the law on foreign agents to put pressure on local NGOs that indicate their incompetence. So that prices on government contracts are raised not tenfold, but at least twofold. So that all kinds of activists stop solving the problems of their own libido by closing exhibitions and throwing eggs at school competition participants. So that officials of the Ministry of Health, who during the crisis promote foreign manufacturers of homeopathy and clean out the pockets of patients, lose their jobs for incompetence and fraud. I don't want that much, right?

The security agenda has always been more focused specifically on criticism and exposure of the West. But now everything is clear with the West much better than before. I remember several years ago, when hearing the word “Russophobia,” many laughed contemptuously and said that grown-up men don’t care about Russia. And now the main character in all American election debates is Putin, unprecedented pressure is being exerted even on our Paralympic athletes, and blackmail with sanctions continues. I am not a diplomat; I don’t get involved in international politics. But many officials involved internal politics, constantly threaten the West with figs and say that an undeclared war is going on against us. Dear ones, how are you going to win this war? Grasping the “spiritual bonds” with one hand, and smashing museum exhibits with the other, demanding that condoms be abandoned and seeking a ban on the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar”? The Ministry of Health convinces people to buy sugar balls at a premium, I’m not kidding, several thousand percent, and they promote the French concern of homeopathic charlatans - is this how they strengthen their position against foreign aggression? Are the editors-in-chief of the media hoping to defeat the West informationally with a selection of unsuccessful photos of Poroshenko?

Recently in Kuban, environmentalists who came to extinguish fires along the river banks were beaten. After this, articles came out: they say, excuse me, environmentalists received international grants, they probably burned the reeds themselves, it was not for nothing that the local residents stood up like a mountain. And there, while sovereign autochthony was being defended, there was no time for fires; the reeds burned down, and with them almost all the coastal birds and animals. Someone just decided to save money on mowing the bushes. During the crisis, the amount of money passing through the hands of officials has decreased, and many want to snatch a bigger piece at last, and distract attention by blaming the “damned State Department” for all sins. They will steal and go to the West, but we will stay, I myself will stay, because I don’t want to leave. This is my country. I am not going to silently watch as it is mutilated, lining their own pockets or currying favor with imaginary ideologues. If you choose who is more dangerous enemy, - an ecologist who extinguishes Russian reeds with an American grant, or an official who sets fire to these same reeds - for me there can be no doubt about this.

You say that this is an oppositional agenda, but when did common sense become oppositional? Don’t beat children, don’t blame raped girls for being “their own fault,” don’t say that vaccines cause autism, build roads that will last at least a year without patches, stop fighting baby boxes, and do normal HIV prevention. Is this an opposition agenda, or what? If so, then Putin is now the main oppositionist, and I am with him. Moreover, the ONF, created by the president, is with us. The “People's Front” is not engaged in either the opposition or the search for State Department agents; its task has always been to identify sabotage among the officials themselves, constructive criticism designed to help the government improve and evolve. I'm doing the same thing.

“The guys from the movement knew that Putin was nearby”

— Were your family interested in politics at all? At what age did you become interested in all this?

— My parents were always interested in politics. My grandfather hid all his life that he was a Jew, fearing pressure on the fifth point. My father equipped soldiers for Chechnya, and before that, he and his mother spent several years serving in Kazakhstan, until they began to press the Russians there. In our family, as in many other families that survived Perestroika, the nineties, the default and everything else, it was always customary to prepare for the worst - such Russian fatalism. We subscribed to all the newspapers, read them carefully, and studied applied political science throughout the entire building. Our generation, on the contrary, was one of the first to live in a more or less calm environment. So, as a child, I stole from my parents’ closet not newspaper editorials, but books about Angelica and the king. It was my parents who brought me to Nashi.

— How did you get into “Nashi”? Why, by the way, not to the Young Guard?

“My mother worked at a university in Vladimir, and when Nashi just started opening a branch in the city, they came to campaign in dorms and lecture halls. Mom liked that they promised free courses in economics, politics, and sociology. At that moment, very conveniently, I once again got out of hand, and my parents gave me a choice: either “Ours” or exile to my grandmother. But if “Nashi” recruited everyone, then it was not clear how to get into MGER - after all, they were preparing the future nomenklatura, and there were always their own people willing to fill this role.

— Could it have happened that you would have been swayed in the other direction and you would have become an opposition activist?

— To be honest, I don’t remember any opposition in Vladimir. A downtrodden child like me, who was also a girl, had no chance of crossing paths with any National Bolsheviks, and Yabloko and other democrats, even at that time, gave the impression of being half-dead. It’s not that there was any choice of activist options back then; there isn’t even one now. And for us, starving people, it was important to identify ourselves with strength and success. And who in Russia personifies strength and success better than Putin?

— I remember that young people were attracted to such movements by the idea of a social elevator. Was this important to you?

“The pinnacle of my career, which I was constantly hinted at at the university, is to study better, and then, perhaps, I will be able to compete for a job as a university librarian.” Either that, or go trade - in a store or from hand, with Herbalife. I never felt any special business talents in myself and from the very beginning I was preparing to rot somewhere among the catalog shelves. Maybe this was not felt so strongly in Moscow, but in the regions they clung with their teeth to even a ghostly chance to escape from this wheel of degeneration of the name of a junior researcher.

- Did it work?

“In Nashi, many people really received an impetus for growth, at least some opportunities, horizontal connections with other intelligent peers. But still, the social elevator is about the Young Guard. MGER was an elevator that went where it needed to on its own, but no one was going to just share their homes with Nashi. The “Young Guard” were given fish, and the “Ours” were shown where to catch it. But there were almost no careerists among us anyway; almost all the commissars who achieved something were people like me, people from small towns who were ready even to the bottom of the ocean - just not to the bottom of a bottle, like most of their neighbors and acquaintances. The poor got stuck in everyday alcohol battles, the rich lost their sense of reality in the consumer race. Young people had no examples or authorities other than Putin. He was a simple man who achieved everything on his own. And the guys from the movement always knew that Putin was nearby. He came to our forums, we came to meetings at his residence - he was our idol, the personification of a completely new concept of self-made. We grew up in this environment.

Of course, it was a strong imprinting. The feeling that Putin was with us, that he belonged to us, never left, even when the movement was closed, even when I was taken for interrogation, my mail was hacked. I don’t know anyone who would root for Russia and its future more sincerely than Putin. But Putin alone, alas, is not enough to keep track of everything that is happening. And all the youth groups were initially, first and foremost, “the president’s liaisons” who, to the best of their ability and understanding, supported Putin’s course.

Due to the fact that “Nashi” was not a social elevator in the classical sense, of course, there were many people left who lived with inflated expectations and were not prepared for the very rapid decline of the movement. There was even a case of suicide; after the dead guy there was a note left, which was clearly written by a person very disappointed with life. The commissars lived in camp conditions for ten years, rushed from city to city, abandoned institutes, quit good jobs to work in the movement. Most of them were fanatically devoted to the idea and expected the idea to reward them. But this is not a charitable foundation that has to babysit everyone. Some took advantage of the opportunities, others failed and found themselves falling outside the normal social life. And fitting back into it is not an easy task. Can you imagine any Motorola going back to the car wash? “It’s either hit or miss,” such people think. You can't become everyone's master.

— Do you maintain contacts with former colleagues in the movement? What about Vasily Yakemenko?

— I don’t maintain contact with Vasily Yakemenko—there’s nothing to talk about. He now has his own projects, which are very far from political life, while I, on the contrary, am engaged precisely in politics.

— You are engaged in political SMM. How big is this market?

— There is always a demand in politics for intelligent specialists of any qualification, from SMM to field workers. Of course, the Russian elections are far from a multi-billion-dollar colossus, like in the United States, but I don’t know a single political strategist or person who has professionally participated in the political struggle in general who is now sitting out of work.

— Do you maintain contacts with the presidential administration?

- Of course, like many of my colleagues. Before the elections, for example, there was a meeting of political scientists and political experts with Vyacheslav Volodin - very informative, by the way, in two hours he exchanged with us his vision of the future of politics in Russia, the legislative branch and the State Duma as well. New season parliament will surprise many, especially skeptics. Kiriyenko has not yet met the new team, but I think she will be able to find a common language - after all, we all have common goals.

“Enemies are those who violate the rights of Russians”

- Let's get back to your views. How have they evolved over the years? There is a feeling that you have become much more moderate.

— It seems to me that the views of most people become more balanced and centrist with age. Youth is a time of radical actions, slogans and harsh statements. Plus than younger man, the more attention the environment puts on him, and with age, his own thoughts and ideas are formed. I was no exception. I want to live in a normal country and I’m ready to fight for it. Perhaps this is moderation of views?

— In general, how long did this evolution take place? Did anyone influence you?

— The main person who influenced the members of the movement while “Nashi” existed was, of course, Yakemenko. When “Nashi” disappeared literally in an instant, much of what we believed in disappeared with them. But I never perceived the disappearance of Nashi as a defeat. Our goal was Putin's victory, and this goal has been achieved. Of course, during our existence, individual curators used the movement to their advantage, but no one tried to deceive us, nor fool us with completely false ideas about some kind of “sixth columns”. I managed to fully realize all my potential in Nashi, and when the project closed, the world around me did not collapse. I had more free time, which I invested in myself, took up self-education, read books, and watched how the political system was changing.

When they offered me new job, I already had my own vision of what value system I would start from. I can go on and on about humanism, patriotism, renewal and so on, but there are some basic, obvious things. Sanctions are sanctions, but it was not Obama or Putin who unscrewed the light bulb in the elevator. Paternalism slows down society. Instead of myths about order under Stalin, about a God-bearing people or about a conspiracy of pedophiles, it is better to learn your inalienable right to be free, happy, healthy and successful - and every resident of Russia has these rights, regardless of his political views, sexual orientation and degree of spirituality . Violating these rights means harming society and the country. Accordingly, enemies are those who violate our rights.

Let's take the law on foreign agents - its authors wanted NGOs that deal with political activity, did this without hiding the fact that they receive foreign money, which means they can be biased in foreign interests. They wanted the best, but it turns out that the register of foreign agents includes regional NGO partners of the World Health Organization involved in anti-smoking projects. But when a French homeopathic company organizes a press conference about the place of homeopathy in modern pharmaceuticals, the Ministry of Health participates in the event. Of course, multi-colored sugar pills that do not contain a single molecule of the drug itself cannot occupy any place in pharmaceuticals. The effectiveness of homeopathy is the same as that of placebo dummies. But the company makes billions in Russia from selling its quack drugs. The scammers want Russians to be more willing to give them their money, and they have arranged for themselves to be indulged by the Ministry of Health - supposedly their funds are related to medicine. And a representative of the Ministry of Health would sit next to the deceivers, promoting pseudoscience to the masses - all so that the company earns more money for the health of Russians. If there is an exemplary example of activity foreign agent- then it’s him. It’s good that social activists, including myself, paid attention to this sabotage and criticism of the possible participation of officials became widespread. The Ministry of Health was forced to back down. Will our country benefit from this? Will win. Will the citizens benefit? They will win. The French company will sell less of its bullshit and deceive fewer people. This is what patriotism looks like in my understanding.

“I sympathize with all prisoners”

— How did you perceive the protests of 2011-2012? I don’t think I went to any rallies, but did my friends go?

— I didn’t go, but there were some acquaintances. In general, the “Bolotnaya” protests are the best proof that the main enemies of the opposition are not the FSB, the “E” center or the investigative authorities, but the leaders of the non-systemic opposition itself, who did everything to ensure that the participants in those protests went home, because “these are still worse". And, by the way, they coped with the task so well that now there is no opposition at all in the media field. They periodically write to me in the comments why I stopped fighting political opponents. How do you order to fight something that does not exist? Nowadays, no matter how hard you try, it’s difficult to find traces of the liberal opposition. This, by the way, is another, purely technical, reason why I have recently switched to criticizing government officials. In the absence of “outside the system”, it became very clear which of the officials was not only causing real harm to the country, but could also compete in the scale of the threat with the majority of the oppositionists combined.

— Do you sympathize with the prisoners in the Bolotnaya case?

“I sympathize with all prisoners; a Russian prison, alas, is not a place intended for humans. Therefore, I probably support any decriminalization of non-serious articles.

— Do you believe that all protests are inspired by the world behind the scenes (I heard this opinion from your colleagues in the OP)?

- Of course not. In general, this is, of course, a very bold statement, considering that, for example, the “Officers of Russia” protest against the Jock Sturges exhibition was led by OP member Anton Tsvetkov. The NOD movement regularly holds protests, Cossacks, fans of Dmitry Enteo... Although I’m listing them now and starting to doubt: maybe there’s something in the version about behind the scenes?

“The party has developed a primitive demarcation”

— You are a member of the Public Chamber. What are you doing there?

— I am mainly involved in the protection of animals, in addition to individual requests and events, for the last couple of years I have been trying to achieve the resumption of work on the law on the responsible treatment of animals. Now in Russia this area is not regulated in any way, because of this it is very difficult to bring torturers to justice, to ensure the right of animals to normal conditions content - there are many such moments. I hope that State Duma deputies will begin active work on it within the framework of the autumn session, at least such forecasts have already been made.

— The Public Chamber, unfortunately, is famous for the strange PR initiatives of many of your colleagues - from the ban on soda to the strange story with the Sturges exhibition and “Officers of Russia.” How do the members of the OP themselves feel about this?

- Most of my colleagues in the OP do not contact me in any way - some because of differences in views, others condemn and consider my behavior on social networks unethical. But in general, the Chamber provides its members with significant freedom of action - any of its members can organize their own round table within the OP, for example. Therefore, it seems to me not entirely correct to attribute private PR initiatives or misconceptions to the account of all members of the Chamber at once. We have freedom of speech and action there. True, unfortunately, this freedom extends to round tables in support of the same charlatan homeopathy, but my tweet about Zhanna Friske even caused a meeting of the ethics commission. Apparently, deliberately misleading people and passing off sugar dummies as medicines- this is much more ethical than jokes on social networks.

— In recent years, society has become sharply polarized. This is fine?

“People are now more tempted than ever to put labels on everything. “If Yevtushenko is against collective farms, then I am for it.” The main political party neologism recent years- “handshake”, compliance with the mythical image of a conscientious liberal intellectual, which many oppositionists cherish as an ideal. On some Radio Liberty they like to lament that we lack the institution of reputation. They imagine this institution as a caste system, where you can only interact with “your own”, the opposition only shakes the hands of the opposition, the guards shake the hands only of the guards. A spherical liberal in a vacuum should not give comments to Russia Today, go to Sergei Minaev’s establishments or, God forbid, believe that Crimea is ours. An ironic portrait of exemplary liberalism even appeared on the Internet - the character Lev Natanovich Sharansky. The funny thing is that in the comments to his comic posts there are still “fighters against the regime” who consider the image exaggerated to the point of a joke to be quite normal and try to enter into a serious dialogue with him.

The party has developed a primitive demarcation - quilted jackets against liberals, there is no third option. I am a “guardian,” therefore, according to liberals, I should demand a ban on abortion, the extermination of gays, and refer to the Dulles Plan. And many of my colleagues believe that I have no right to question the innocence of officials at any level and look for threats to the regime somewhere other than in the West.

At the same time, neither one nor the other even thinks about where in this nomenclature there is a place, in fact, for patriotism and real politics? There is black, there is white, here are all friends, there are all enemies. Both sides of the barricades, instead of minimally creative actions, are mainly engaged in cultivating hatred towards their opponents. Each side believes that only their system of values and views is acceptable; attempts to object cause scandals, pickets, rain of brilliant green and a hail of eggs. Of course this is not normal. We need dialogue, and not mutual counter-propaganda from clichés, which even their creators, it seems, no longer believe. I have nothing to share with those who, like me, are doing something for the benefit of a successful Russia. I am ready to support a person with opposition views who is doing something cool and useful, like, for example, Mitya Aleshkovsky with his “Takie Dela” foundation, and I don’t see a problem criticizing those who made their name by supporting the authorities if they do something harmful to society.

In Yekaterinburg, for example, there is such a figure - German Avdyushin, in these elections he was number four on the regional list " United Russia", member of various departments, member public council at the regional Ministry of Education, head public organization"All-Russian parental resistance." They even have a section on their website, “Spiritual Foundations of Russia.” And this “guardian”, together with his movement, is actively promoting the ideas of anti-vaxxers and HIV dissidents in the region - local doctors complain to the prosecutor’s office about him, because HIV-deniers not only die themselves from stopping therapy, they also put their children in the grave . And so, instead of sharp public condemnation and stopping any contacts, local officials cooperate with him, support him and hold actions - of course, he is “one of our own”, for spirituality. Spirituality, under the guise of which people are driven to their graves, is already some kind of Satanism. Is the society in which this is possible healthy? This is a rhetorical question.

(Site note: in fact, German Avdyushin represents another organization - the All-Russian Parents' Meeting).

— Then here’s a specific question: how do you feel about the installation of busts and monuments to Stalin in the regions of Russia?

“This is not a trend, this is a symptom of social ills.” Few people are generally interested in the real Stalin; people have long been captivated by Stalin the myth. This myth is constantly being patched up to suit the needs of the day, trying to bring it into current discourse, linking it either with victory in the war, or with nostalgia about the “new 37th”, or with misconceptions about the justice of the Stalinist system and attempts to justify the extermination of the people of Russia during repressions .

How do our people react to what they consider injustice? Rich means he stole. Too talkative? That means he is an extremist. All the rich must be dispossessed, the punishing right hand must overtake those who deviate from people’s concepts of justice. Stalin worshipers sincerely believe that repression is good and useful, because they themselves will not fall under the colossus. Usatii’s fans are easy to recognize on the Internet - their arguments begin with a description of methods for physically eliminating opponents.

I have already spoken about the paternalism inherent in our society. The formula of this paternalism is “Stalin will come and restore order.” Everything must be strictly regulated, no pluralism, discipline must be maintained by force. Of course, no democracy is needed for this. All these parliaments, disputes, media, freedom of expression, in their opinion, - nutrient medium, in which the debate between LGBT, GMOs and liberalism flourishes. Despite the fact that now these people have caught and are actively promoting this Stalinist-traditionalist discourse and allegedly support the government’s course, they are not any support for the regime. They consider Putin too soft. They need civil war against the “fifth column”, which includes everyone from ministers to environmentalists or volunteers - in short, everyone who will stand in the way of plunging Russia into a new Middle Ages.

— What about the opposition’s calls for revolution and lustration?

— Lustrations, in the understanding of the average “anti-regime”, are the same as repression. The destruction of opponents, the dictatorship of the only true opinion is a touching point of unity with formal opponents.

— There is another important trend now: to ban everything that offends those who call themselves “believers.” This also grew out of “spiritual bonds.”

— The radical polarization of society, in fact, is already leading to people demanding that everyone with whom they disagree should be imprisoned. What offends them is not the mockery of faith, but any alternative opinion that goes beyond the strictly regulated canon. It seems to me that a believer would most likely be offended not by the Pokemon in the temple, but by the assumption that computer game may be a threat to faith. People often resort to the position of the offended not when they are offended, but to gain the right to censor everything they don’t like. And it is not only and not so much believers who resort to this manipulation. In general, among believers there are the same number of inadequate people as among atheists, tree worshipers, and any other social group. And, of course, we must not allow inadequate people to be able to impose their norms on society.

— Did your security guard friends make any claims against you for contacts with the opposition? Aren't you afraid that one day you will be called a traitor?

— My VIP support group wasn’t big enough before. Minaev and Krasovsky, I remember, supported me when Nosik wrote something very evil about my appearance, and now Nosik himself has changed his mind about organizing holivars and sometimes also intervenes if he holds a similar opinion. Max Kononenko always said only good things, Masha Baronova supports her - she is generally a much greater patriot and protector than some of my colleagues, it’s not for nothing that Navalny can’t stand her. Timur Prokopenko has always helped and supported me, and this is much more useful than any public words.

But there are always enough haters. There are those who will criticize everything I say, even if I quote the Bible. There has never been any political or administrative will to defend me, and thank God - those speakers in respect of whom such a will appears very quickly begin to believe that this is a property of their outstanding rhetorical talents, and fall into a parallel reality, not feeling the true state of affairs. On the other hand, I believe that the truth is capable of defending itself and will always be supported, as is happening now - no crowd of paid fans is needed, sensible remarks collect social capital not from the party, but from ordinary people who know how to think sensibly and want to see more sanity and rationality in the media field.

In general, criticism and any opposition is useful. They managed to drag me to interrogations, and searches were carried out based on denunciations from well-wishers - I endured it, but now it is documented that all these denunciations and suspicions were false, but it has become much better clear who is really a friend and who is an enemy. In general, perhaps, I have never been disappointed only in Putin; he is the only one you can definitely rely on. This explains my political position. I choose someone who will not let you down.

—Where do you see yourself in ten years?

- In Russia. I'm absolutely sure of this.

And the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Youth Affairs (2007-2010), member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation of the 5th composition (2014-2017).

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Biography

She grew up in Vladimir and graduated from the Faculty of Philology in 2008 with a degree in “teacher of Russian language and literature.” Married . Mother - Irina Borisovna, works as head of the Russian language department at the Faculty of Philology of Vladimir State University for the Humanities. Father - Andrei Petrovich, graduated from the Gorky Higher Military School of Logistics and in 2003 established LLC Trading Company Collection.

"Our"

Christina was brought into the movement by her mother, who was attracted by the free teaching of courses in humanities (history, politics, psychology). Soon Potupchik became the press secretary of “Nashi” in Vladimir.

From 2008 to 2010 she was press secretary Federal agency for youth affairs Rosmolodezh - in 2012, Novaya Gazeta wrote that the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs does not even know the middle name Potupchik.

On June 27, 2012, in her blog on LJ, she announced that she was tired and was leaving the Nashi movement. Anastasia Fedorenchik became the new press secretary of Nashi.

In 2013, she joined the commissars of the new wave of the Nashi movement, who opposed the visit to the May congress of the movement’s founder, Vasily Yakemenko.

Open New Democracy Foundation

At the end of February 2013, Potupchik announced that she intended to create a fund to support non-profit Internet projects “Fond” (Open New Democracy Foundation). According to her, the organization will support “really important projects, starting with the popularization of donation, ending with an accessible explanation of taxation schemes." According to the Kommersant Vlast magazine, this structure is engaged in monitoring, writing posts and analyzing the mood of the blogosphere for the presidential administration of the Russian Federation.

Post Office

At the end of January 2012, hackers calling themselves Russian Anonymous began publishing the contents of the hacked email of the head of Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko and the press secretary of the Nashi movement Kristina Potupchik with a total volume of 16 GB. They themselves did not comment on the hacking messages or refute their contents, nor did they contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs with statements about email hacking.

The published letters contained information about bloggers who received money and material gifts (for example, an iPad) for their publications. Among them were Ilya Varlamov (zyalt) (400 thousand rubles for two posts) and Sergey Mukhamedov (ottenki_serogo), Oleg Makarenko (fritzmorgen) and Igor Bigdan (ibigdan). In addition, a discussion of the Reedus project was found in the correspondence, which gave bloggers grounds to consider this media “Surkov’s project.” In the correspondence between Potupchik and the head of the staff of the Nashi movement, Artur Omarov, dated February 2008, plans are discussed to “create unbearable conditions” for the Kommersant holding: blocking the work of the publishing house, “psychologically and physically finishing off” the employees. This was supposed to be done through the purchase and destruction of the daily circulation of the Kommersant newspaper (it was planned to spend 1.5 million rubles on this), a DDoS attack on the site lasting five hours, and blocking the printing house. After this, some young people began picketing the newspaper editorial office and handing out toilet paper with the Kommersant logo, and a month later unknown hackers attacked the publication’s website.

After the publication of the correspondence general manager Kommersant Demyan Kudryavtsev accused Potupchik of coordinating DDoS attacks on the newspaper’s website in 2008 because of a publication where the Nashi movement was called a “jubilant gopota” that was no longer needed by the country’s leadership. He promised to demand that the Ministry of Internal Affairs initiate a criminal case against Potupchik and other persons involved in this case. In turn, Potupchik accused him of libel and threatened to file lawsuits.

At the end of December 2014, the group “Anonymous International” published letters, according to them, sent by Kristina Potupchik, and containing reports on the behavior of oppositionists on social networks and critical media publications regarding the current government. Among the recipients was former manager"Young Guard", and at the time of publication - deputy head of the department domestic policy administration of President Timur Prokopenko, one of the letters was edited by former activist of the Nashi movement Anastasia Fedorenchik. The group’s Twitter says that the posted correspondence is “a small part of the available archives.”

Getting into the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation

In May 2014, Potupchik nominated herself for the online elections of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

During the elections to the OP of the Russian Federation, Potupchik’s competitor Valery Fedotov raised a question that was anomalous, in his opinion, the increase in votes for her candidacy (to the 800 votes available after the first two weeks of voting, 2,500 were added over the next 4 days). He believed that such a result could not be achieved by simple campaigning on the Internet [ the significance of the fact? ]

According to the voting results, Potupchik got into the RF OP, taking second place in the top three with 32,531 votes, slightly behind the editor-in-chief of the Kommersant FM radio station and former ally of the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin, Maria Komarova. IN Public Chamber Potupchik is engaged in “the development of the information society, media and mass communications.”

Initiatives

Potupchik advocates the repeal of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the reform of anti-extremist legislation. She criticized the criminal punishment of Ildar Dadin, the first to be convicted of repeated violations of the rules for holding mass rallies. She protested against the criminal prosecution of Evgenia Chudnovets, who was convicted for reposting the video.

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Potupchik, Christina
Re-sworn
Digest: Christina Potupchik
Understand and acknowledge
“Our” and other pro-government youth movements may be closed at any moment for violating their own statutes “New Izvestia”, 07.18.2007
Kristina Potupchik left Nashi (undefined) . RBC (June 27, 2012). Archived March 14, 2013.
Names of the winners of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation of the 5th composition, Potupchik Kristina Andreevna, direction of development of the information society, media and mass communications
Potupchik Kristina Andreevna on the website of Elections to the Public Chamber of Russia 5 composition
Potupchik denied information about searches at her home “RBC”, 12/26/2014
Parents K. Potupchik
Ilya Azar Don’t rush to bury us (undefined) . Lenta.ru (March 14, 2013).
Erotic gift for Putin (undefined) . Gazeta.Ru (October 6, 2010). Archived March 14, 2013.
The dirt on Shenderovich turned out to be more important for the state than the ONF (undefined) . Information agency "PolitSovet" (February 12, 2014). - News. Retrieved February 12, 2014.

Kristina Andreevna Potupchik(b. January 19, 1986, Murom, Vladimir region) - Russian public figure, blogger. Press secretary of the youth movement “Nashi” from 2007 to 2012
Life path Christina Potupchik Before her work in the Nashi movement, she was little known. "Ribbon. Ru" writes that "the details of her biography have not been published in open sources." There is information about Potupchik’s early career that she grew up in Vladimir, where she published in local newspapers and in 2005 joined the “Nashi” movement. " New newspaper"wrote in 2012 that the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs does not even know middle names Tumbler.

The role of Kristina Potupchik in the Nashi movement

Since 2007, he has been working as press secretary of the youth movement “Nashi”, which advocates in support of V.V. Putin. Later, there were publications in a number of media outlets that she also worked for public principles at the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
Since 2005, Kristina Potupchik has been blogging on LiveJournal, commenting on socio-political events. Criticizes some opponents of the current Russian government.

In 2010, Kristina Potupchik in her blog talked about the release of a calendar with erotic photographs of students of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University as a gift to V.V. Putin. Putin's press secretary D.S. Peskov noted that this is a private initiative Treader. Participated in the distribution of videos compromising independent journalists and opposition representatives.

In 2012, Kommersant CEO Demyan Kudryavtsev accused Treader in that she coordinates DDoS attacks on the newspaper's website. In response Treader stated that it considers this slander and is ready to file appropriate lawsuits.
On June 27, 2012, in her blog on LJ, she announced that she was tired and was leaving the Nashi movement. Anastasia Fedorenchik became the new press secretary of Nashi.

Post Office
At the end of January 2012, hackers calling themselves Russian Anonymous began publishing the contents of the hacked emails of the head of Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko and the press secretary of the Nashi movement. Christina Potupchik, who did not comment on reports of hacking.
The published letters contained information about bloggers who received money for their publications. Among them were Ilya Varlamov (zyalt) (400 thousand rubles for two posts) and Sergey Mukhamedov (ottenki_serogo), Oleg Makarenko (fritzmorgen) and Igor Bigdan (ibigdan).
In addition, the correspondence contained a discussion of Varlamov’s Reedus project, which gave bloggers grounds to consider this media outlet “Surkov’s project.”

Kristina Potupchik was born on January 19, 1986. Details of her biography have not been published in open sources. It is only known that her mother's name was Irina. According to some reports, Christina grew up in the city of Vladimir, where in the mid-2000s she published notes in the local press and already in 2005 became a member of the Nashi movement. It is also unknown whether Potupchik graduated from a university, but she wrote about herself: “I am a philologist by education” (the author’s spelling and punctuation have been preserved - editor’s note).

The first mention of Potupchik as the press secretary of Nashi appeared in September 2007 (before that, Anastasia Suslova was the press secretary of the movement). In October of the same year, it became known that Potupchik also became press secretary State Committee of the Russian Federation for Youth Affairs, who headed former head"Ours" Vasily Yakemenko. In 2008, when Yakemenko was appointed head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), Potupchik was also mentioned in the press: it was noted that she “serves as Yakemenko’s press secretary.” In 2010-2011, she appeared in the media as the press secretary of Rosmolodezh, but later, in April 2011, Kirill Martynov was called the department’s press secretary.

Potupchik actively maintained a blog on LiveJournal and a microblog on Twitter. Information was published that she could be engaged in “cheating” the rating of her diary on LiveJournal and allegedly paid 30 rubles for each publication with a link to her entries, as well as information that some of the articles posted in her diary ended up in " top" LiveJournal even before receiving the first comments.

As the press secretary of Nashi and Rosmolodezh, Potupchik wrote about their activities and repeatedly made harsh and scandalous statements. In 2010, the press noted that the Potupchik blog was one of the main popularizers of scandalous videos with incriminating evidence, including sexual information, on media and opposition figures - including the former editor-in-chief of Russian Newsweek magazine Mikhail Fishman, TV presenter and satirist Viktor Shenderovich and member of the presidium of the Solidarity movement Ilya Yashin. Potupchik herself denied Nashi’s connection with the appearance of these videos.

In August 2010, Potupchik spoke in obscene terms about the musician Yuri Shevchuk, who performed at a concert in defense of the Khimki Forest, and in September 2010, she accused Oleg Mitvol, who then held the post of prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, of patronizing prostitution (a list of public houses was entitled "Brothels under the wing of Mitvol"). In response, Mitvol accused Potupchik of slander, for which reason she was summoned to the police for questioning, but information about the initiation of a criminal case against the Nashi press secretary was not published in the press. In November 2010, Potupchik said that the leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, may have connections with terrorist organization"Al-Qaeda" - in response to the earlier assumption made by representatives of the Youth Yabloko that Yakemenko may be involved in the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin.

Since the end of January 2012, the microblog on Twitter "Op_Russia" (whose creators stated that they are representatives of the Anonymous movement in Russia) began publishing links to archives of electronic correspondence, which allegedly belonged to Yakemenko, the press secretary of "Nashi" Kristina Potupchik and certain associated persons. It followed from the letters that Rosmolodezh and Nashi paid some well-known bloggers for their publications, numerous LiveJournal users for pro-government comments, and organized DDoS attacks on liberal media sites. In February 2012, the general director of the Kommersant publishing house, Demyan Kudryavtsev, sent a statement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to “check the involvement of Kristina Potupchik and other members of Nashi” in organizing an attack on the newspaper’s website in 2008. The youth organization itself denied involvement in DDoS attacks, but refused to comment on the authenticity of the published correspondence.

On June 9, 2012, Yakemenko, who had recently announced his intention to create a new political project, was relieved of his post as head of Rosmolodezh. His place was taken by Yakemenko’s deputy Sergei Belokonev. On June 27, Potupchik announced that she was leaving her position as Nashi press secretary. Potupchik did not give any reasons for her departure, adding that her plans for the future “are still vague and uncertain.”